𝔟𝔯𝔦𝔱𝔱𝔞𝔫𝔶

“This web of time – the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore each other through the centuries –embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and yet in others both of us exist. In this one, in which chance has favored me, you have come to my gate. In another, you, crossing the garden, have found me dead. In yet another, I say these very same words but am in error, a phantom Time is forever dividing itself toward innumerable futures.”

Household cookware in an era of enshittification

Faced with today's technological revolution, one can understand Heiddeger's concern that postmodern humanity is being reduced to flexible standing reserve, without enduring essence or identity. As a standing reserve, human behavior would become totally coordinated with whatever technological devices happen to be available in a given situation. In other words, instead of using this or that device in accordance with a plan developed by oneself as an autonomous subject, the post-subject human would almost immediately begin engaging in whatever (more or less) skillful practice is elicited and required by the technological device that presents itself. Humans as self-conscious agents would virtually vanish into an ever more tightly coupled relationship with the electronic technology involved in the planetary-wide process of production and consumption.

all right huddle up. nobody kill yourself today

this is just fucking insane